Security researchers have discovered a huge amount of data containing information about millions of Facebook users, left available for anyone to access - no password required.
The culprits? Third-party developers.
Published April 3, 2019 9:54 pm in Data loss, Facebook, Privacy 0
Security researchers have discovered a huge amount of data containing information about millions of Facebook users, left available for anyone to access - no password required.
The culprits? Third-party developers.
Published April 3, 2019 6:57 pm in Malware, Ransomware 0
Itâs been over two weeks now since Norsk Hydro, one of the worldâs largest producers of aluminium, was hit by a ransomware attack that hit 160 of its plants worldwide, forcing many of its sites to switch to manual operations.
And theyâre handling things really rather wellâ¦
Published March 31, 2019 11:30 pm in Sponsor
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Published March 29, 2019 3:05 pm in Law & order, Malware 6
Following mass-shooting in New Zealand, someone has taken a copy of the terroristâs Word document and weaponised it to download malicious code from the internet.
Published March 28, 2019 2:05 pm in Guest blog, Malware 0
Office Depot, and its partner Support.com, have been fined $35 million for using the PC Health Check tune-up service to dupe people into buying unnecessary computer repair and technical services.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Published March 28, 2019 12:05 am in Data loss, Law & order, Malware, Podcast, Privacy, Windows 1
An app leaking private conversations and intimate photographs is ignoring requests to fix the problem, hackers poison a security update sent to ASUS PCs, and how to protect your privacy in motel rooms.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning âSmashing Securityâ podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Maria Varmazis.
Published March 27, 2019 3:24 pm in Guest blog, Malware 0
Taiwan-based technology giant Asus is advising concerned customers to run a newly-created diagnostic tool on their Windows computers after hackers pushed out malware to what some security researchers have estimated to be as many as one million PCs using Asusâs own Live Update software tool.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Twitter users have been warned not to fall for a prank that claimed their user interface would change colour if they told the service they were born in 2007, after a wave of users locked themselves out of their accounts for being underage.
Hundreds of thousands of Asus PCs may have been infected with malware installed by Asusâs own automatic Live Update tool.
Published March 25, 2019 5:07 pm in Malware, Ransomware 1
Multinational law firm was hit in the crossfire as Russia-backed ransomware spread, and Hiscox is reportedly declining to pay up citing an âact of warâ.
Published March 25, 2019 3:35 pm in Data loss, Guest blog, iOS, Privacy 0
More than 238,000 individuals users have had their familyâs real-time location exposed for weeks on end after an app developer left sensitive data exposed on the internet, without a password.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Stretching back as far as 2012, Facebook has been storing the passwords of hundreds of millions of users unencrypted, in plaintext.
And those passwords were searchable by Facebook staffâ¦
Published March 21, 2019 1:30 pm in Facebook, Google, Guest blog, Law & order 0
Even the most tech savvy companies in the world can fall for business email compromise.
A Lithuanian man has this week pleaded guilty to tricking Google and Facebook into transferring over $100 million into a bank account under his control after posing as a company that provided the internet giants with hardware for their data centers.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Published March 21, 2019 12:05 pm in Data loss, Encryption, Law & order, Malware, Podcast, Privacy 0
Online drug dealers get busted due to poor OPSEC! People are still failing to wipe their USB sticks properly! A potential presidential candidate is outed as a former hacker! Flat Earthers! Pi! Empathy!
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning âSmashing Securityâ podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Paul Ducklin.
Published March 20, 2019 11:21 am in Malware, Ransomware 0
You canât help but get the feeling that this was a highly-organised extortion attempt against Norsk Hydro.
Published March 19, 2019 1:06 pm in Guest blog, Malware, Security threats 0
Norsk Hydro, one of the worldâs largest producers of aluminium, says that it is battling an âextensive cyber-attackâ that first hit its systems on Monday evening and then escalated overnight.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
